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OUTLINE Chapter 15 what is freedom ? : reconstruction , 1865 - 1877 This Chapter discusses the challenges faced by northerners and southerners after the Civil War. The federal government debated various policies for bringing the defeated Confederate states back into the Union. This Chapter also discusses what happened to the emancipated slaves as they sought their place as free people in American society. INTRODUCTION I. THE MEANING OF freedom II. THE MAKING OF RADICAL reconstruction III. RADICAL reconstruction IN THE SOUTH IV. THE OVERTHROW OF reconstruction INTRODUCTION STORY: Toward the end of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman met with a group of recently freed blacks in the southern city of Savannah. The men were ministers, educators and leaders of the black community and Sherman wanted to know from them how freedmen thought about their new-found status and what might be done to help them succeed in a society that had once relegated them to slavery.
OUTLINE Chapter 15 “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865-1877 This chapter discusses the challenges faced by northerners and southerners
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